There you go, that should kill him. Yeah, that's a hit I think . SIM:GUN! That's out
of ammo.Oh no just at the moment. Yeah. Well you get away - you get away today.
It's an IL-76. I recently visited SAAB doing a research
and filming trip over in Sweden and they gave me exclusive access to a Gripen C/D. You might have
already seen the full walk around video on that but I can't show the cockpit of that aircraft,
simply because ...well there are certain things in there that um yeah it's you know the plane's
in service you know what I'm saying... so I talked with the people at SAAB and they
agreed that it would be really cool to show off the cockpit anyway. They gave me the access to
a simulator. Yeah, a full fidelity simulator that they use also with extended options of course for
pilot training. It is in fact set up as a Gripen E so, it has that wide angle display [WAD] - it's
a very futuristic look, it's not going with those gauges and instruments that you might be familiar
with from traditional cockpits. It really was a fantastic experience virtually flying Gripen E
with of course a very knowledgeable pilot 'Jussi'. He used to fly Viggen then he went over to Gripen,
explaining the ins and out of this doing some, well some take off, some landing,
and of course we also did some combat, BVR [Beyond-Visual-Range], IR [Infra-Red] missiles
as well as guns. I gotta say the flying part was fine, the fighting part was fine, but I did
mess it up big time with my guns. But you know what see, for yourself. JUSSI: Now you will see
your speed picking up here in knots, you can just maintain your course along with Center Line yeah
when you come to an index, this L-index here, that means that you have sufficient speed to take off.
Okay. So you can now start pulling back on your stick, there you go there you go.
This is now your heading and this is now your altitude, your QNH ft [Q Nautical Height]. There
you go, so now you get that gear in, very good. You just climb up to whatever 10 15 000 feet - and
make a right to about zero five zero. Zero Five Zero. We should have some threat aircraft
moving towards us in a while from the Northeast. So basic flight flight to check trajectory,
if you have navigation you know you don't have any waypoints then you will have some indication
around the heading scale up there to where you should be going. Yeah. Obviously all kinds of
threats Target information will be displayed here as well. That's normally in transition around five
to six thousand feet depending on where you fly yeah so forth. It flies very smooth, it's nice.
It has, just a little bit - like most stimulators - just a tiny tiny bit of digital lag. Yeah. Yeah,
actually a lot easier to fly in real life and also you will see the movements and the motion
in your body and so. We already went through, we find the altitude hole button it's on your index
finger on your right. Yeah. So just select that and now you can release of the stick you can see
how the presentation changes. When it comes you will get these little boxes up here that
means that you will know it will now maintain your altitude. If you press your right pedal slightly
ever so slightly. Yeah. Yyou will see that you can now make some adjustments here with the
pedals which can be useful in transition flights but also if you are busy working 'head down' and
want to do just a little bit of maneuvering to crank away from a threat or something like that.
Now if you look at your WAD display down here so this is you obviously you're in the middle,
this is now your where your radar volume is. You can get all kinds of other information of threats,
these are the threats, Airborne threats you have you have bullseye so you can go now and
and select a point of one of those threats. Airborne threats you have you have bullseye
so you can go now and and select a point of one of those threats. Yeah. You can just go a little
bit...you have a function where you will always go to the closest object but we don't give it a
challenge right now... on and so you can now do a track-while-scan or a like a 'prioritize threat'.
You select your own weapon. Yeah. So you will now see now for demo mode on your own
generic weapon in terms of weapons engaging so on so. Maximum launch
this is an indication of some maneuver limits for that weapon but this is generic in principle
and these change if you start if you maneuver. Go right and left you will and see how the kinematics
change dynamically depending on your ratio in terms of headings and speeds and so on.
Okay. So if you can now start turn towards them a little bit and still you are flying now with the
passive radar, so all this information is being supplied by command and control. You can also see
it in this information field on the WAD. It's a C which means Command and Control. You can all get
all the other indication of what is the sources of that data fusion that supplies this track.
So we will now have set your radar now you will have your own radar. Oh yeah,
I see the change there. Yes so you will now get something different you can also you don't have
to make a track while scan you can fire at any Target from any source. Now that
me this uh your weapons engagement, so when I turn green which means that you can fire your
missile radar fire missile against that hostiles threat right there. Okay. Press the trigger away
and then the lay the cover switch back onto 'Safe'. There we go we're on safe. Now you will
see that this there is a a line like a missile polygon here - which is now displaying. Green
means that you have a sufficient data link up and down - Yeah - between the missile and the aircraft
and also Green Dot means that it has sufficient kinematics to actually defeat that Target. If you
look at the head up display here now you would get some indication of your actual gimbal limits
for missile support and also to continue tracking that track or hostile Target with your radar. It
will give you all the information really and head up similarly - oh Splash - there we go
so yes a clear indication of BVR, the missile has now told you that it has actually the
proximity fuse has triggered - yeah - it will send you a message back and then that
will happen okay. If you select IR missile, that was the to the left (switch on stick).
We will see a different kind of uh kind of you get normally an IR missile would
look head up here - yeah - so it will give you this little kind of aiming reticle circle here
and as soon as you come close to the Target within your weapons engagement zone, that means that your
radar lock on Target, this line will start moving clockwise to the kind of outer range
and then it will be the optimum launch Zone and then the inner in the launch and that's kind of
the general principle of aiming reticle. Left - yeah - there you go and now you see this changing
now - yeah- so it's you can try it now so it's just - already - yes you can so this is awesome
this is enough inner firing range so that's good. Obviously with higher missiles you can
choose to uncage the seeker yeah and you get the growl but you can be operated like that. What's
most challenging actually is the gun engagement so if you go safe on your
arm again - yeah - and then you select air-to- air gun to the right, the right. Okay yeah.
Then we will just find the target so that's about 25 degrees 35 degrees to your right there,
lock your radar on that Target. There he is okay there is yeah. We're getting closer. Yep
I don't want to overshoot now. Just pull back on your throttle it will be fine.
You should get him now
Oh no that was an easy shot, completely missed. Yeah hit properly with a high precision gun on an
air-to-air gun engagement when you are moving and your target is moving, it is not easy.
Obviously cues on your radar, so it's a subject for some training that's
why we do it also live-fire training against towed targets in real life.
There you go, that should kill him - yeah what's the hit I think- Sim:GUN! oh that's out of ammo.
Oh no just at the moment - well you get away - yeah - you get away today. It's an IL-76.
To go back to base? We will now. Your sensors have said okay this is now ILS [Instrument Landing
System] and we were on our way. That looks all good now, you see that we have to speed
up a little bit, that's great, you can see how quick it is in response. Maintain your speed so,
you put your vector on this Horizon here, so up a little bit, there you go perfect that's good.
As soon as you hit the Glide slope and the kind of the center line it will now start guiding you
where to go so it'll be just a moment. Right now we're too fast again. Yeah yeah slightly,
so we can just come down a little (on the throttle) come down a little bit, there we are.
Trying to learn the balance here for the first time. Yeah it's
the first time so you're doing really well so, it's a good job,
As soon as you, as long as you start by putting your flight back to symbol on the horizon then
you'll always maintain your altitude and then you can take the rest of there. Very soon it will give
you a a Glide slope as well - yeah - I'm ready for very good just relax if you're doing fine.
It's easy for you to say you've done like what a ten thousand...yeah many many years of training.
Oh yeah of course the rain now yeah turbulence. We can play with all kinds of different weather
conditions. Perfect speed control yeah, don't go too much don't don't go lower than this,
go up a little bit yeah and this is where you will be going so ILS flight slope will start.
Presentation will start changing soon. If not I'll have to do this, oh there we go. So
this little dot here - yeah - if you put that one inside it gives you ideal air glide slope
but now you are a descending that's a speed control again, that's good - yeah-
so up up a little bit so ideally this dot should be uh in this horizontal line that looks very good
- yeah - that's perfect - that's fine - yeah I'm doing really well well done okay perfect - speed
is slightly high - it's perfect actually approach speed is 170 (knots) according to the air traffic
regulations. It's very good, that looks very good - there we go - not all people do it this well
in the first first time, you're doing really. Well maybe they're doing better with the guns.
you know there we go now you can start looking at the outside you can see okay because you're so
lows so 200 feet is normally the minimum minimum for an ILS approach like this. A bit hazy like
today - I'm getting there - yeah - I am flaring - yeah good and then you will find the brakes
on top of the pedals - yeah oh beautiful - well done. Thank you very much. Hope you enjoyed it.
Yeah I did absolutely thanks for the tour yeah it's beautiful yeah it's very intuitive you know
I think I have to do it a couple of more times yeah and maybe I can hit our Ilyushin. Yeah next
step is then to do kind of the Tactical air unit collaboration, how all the kind of we talked about
earlier today in the briefing how active-passive sensors work together and could create awareness
and data fusion -yeah- with or without Command and Control and also to see that how well that
actually works -okay- and how you can use the data that is available for you yeah - on the next visit
- yeah but how everything is changing like we talked about. A pilot would no longer be entirely
in control of his own or her own sensors because it's been used by everybody so that's the network
enabled warfighting of today. If at this point you want to see more do check out membership options
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